Writing & freedom : from nothing to persons and back /
Twelve essays in literary theory, philosophy and religion, about atheism, freedom and "the Jesus thought experiment" connect, but don't conclude. A recurring theme is the "nothing" at the heart of the deep atheism of George Eliot, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling a...
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Steubenville, Ohio :
Franciscan University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I. VIRTUE AND NECESSITY 1. George Eliot: Is Submission a Virtue? 2. Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde: Seeing and Suffering 3. "What Have the Gods to Do with My Bridge!" Rudyard Kipling's "Naked Words and Mean?" 4. "What's God Got to Do with Pig-Killing?" Why Thomas Hardy Stopped Writing Novels PART II. THE GRANT OF FREEDOM 5. Writing and Freedom 6. What It's Like to Be a Person 7. Five Suppositions PART III. FREEDOM AND GOD 8. "What Do You Want"?: Newman's "Interminable Scepticism" 9. Good, Happy, and Free 10. Transcendental Relativism; or, The Death of God and the Jesus Thought Experiment 11. Beginnings and Endings: Passover and Passion 12. Freedom in the Gospel According to Mark.